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Housing in Ulysses

A typical Ulysses home is worth roughly $104,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$104K
PA $290K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,674
PA $3,311

What kind of housing town is Ulysses?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 3.1 years of income

Less than across Pennsylvania (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$121,000
Typical Ulysses home $104K

That covers a typical Ulysses home, with $16K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$690
Loan $520Tax $140Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $280 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Ulysses’s typical property tax (1.61% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

61% of Ulysses households own their home

Half of Ulysses’s homes were built before 1951.

Owners and renters
Own 61%Rent 39%

Pennsylvania: 69% own.

1951
typical home built · PA 1965
$1,674
median property tax bill · PA $3,311
1.61%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · PA 1.30%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $970

Renters already here pay a median of $800, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$710
1 bedroom$740
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,220
4 bedrooms$1,350
39%
of households rent · PA 31%
70
renter households
$800
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Potter County, PA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2025

No permits for new homes were issued in Ulysses in 2025. The last year with any was 2022 (1 new home).

Single-family
0123 200020052010201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
6
homes in the past 10 years
Homes vs. people, 2010–2020
Residents−22
New homes+1

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Ulysses's population fell by 22 even though 1 new home was permitted. Homes are holding fewer people: households are getting smaller, or more homes are used part of the year. Across Pennsylvania: 1.4 new residents per new home.

Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2026 (Jan–Aug)000—
2025000—
2024000—
2023000—
2022110$300,000
2021220$170,000
2020220$290,000
2019110$300,000
2018000—
2017000—
2016000—
2015000—
2014000—
2013000—
2012000—
2011000—
2010000—
2009000—
2008000—
2007110$245,000
2006330$183,000
2005110$150,000
2004110$200,000
2003220$150,000
2002110$44,000
2001330$290,000
2000220$122,000

Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

On the market in Ulysses

Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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